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My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls, A noise of falling weights that never fell, weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.
Alfred Tennyson— The Ring.
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
h. p. lovecraft— Letter to J. Vernon Shea (7 August 1931), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 579
Brasília is a weird place but I like being here. I can focus on the job here, there's no city madness and I don't need urban stimulation.
gilberto gil— Steward, Sue (2003-10-19). "Minister of cool: part one". The Observer (Guardian Media Group). Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
In all museums throughout the world one may see plaster casts of footprints of weird animals, footprints preserved for posterity, not because the animals were particularly good of their sort, but because they had the luck to walkon the lava while it was cooling. There is just a faint hope that something of the same sort may happen to us.
Banjo (Andrew Barton) Paterson— Of Henry Lawson and himself writing in a new land. Quoted in Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie A Literary Heritage: 'Banjo' Paterson (1988), introduction.
Don't look at me weird. I'm sandwich crazy.
bill allred— Radio From Hell (July 18, 2006)
I know Bono and he knows Ono, she knows Eno whose phone goes thus:"Brian's not home, he's at the North Pole, but if you'd like to leave a weird noise..."
nigel blackwell— Eno Collaboration, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road (1997)
We broke up mostly because we didn't have a manager and everyone was on different drugs. I don't take them so it was a bit weird for me.
ian brown— "Ex-Stone Roses vocalist produces 1st solo album", The Vindicator, 5 September 1998, retrieved 2011-08-14
"To be perfectly honest with you, ABC picks you to do this and then the machine goes into action and you shoot promos. But I'm still sitting in my bedroom at home going, 'Jeez, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it.' And it's a weird situation to be in. And I guess we'll all find out.
jimmy kimmel— On getting his own late-night program, Jimmy Kimmel Live! — reported in Alan Sepinwall (January 26, 2003) "A regular guy steps into stardom", The Star-Ledger, p. 1.
I've had no demands, no weird requests for strange-colored water or cushions. She's exactly the same person I met two years ago.
leona lewis— Simon Cowell, Entertainment Weekly, April 2008
It's weird. I always had the premonition that Sharon belonged to me just for a little while.
Roman Polanski— On his murdered wife, Sharon Tate, in an interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million — a gamble for high stakes.
Roman Polanski— Interview in Playboy magazine (February 1972); also quoted in Make It Again, Sam : A Survey of Movie Remakes (1975) by Michael B. Druxman, p. 105
Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
kevin rudd— Attacks on Abbott cheap and nasty, says Pell. The Age (February 15, 2006). Retrieved on 13 February, 2008.
— Response to Liberal MP Danna Vale's comment that Australia's rising abortion rate indicated that it might become a Muslim nation in 50 years.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
hunter s. thompson— "Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl" (Rolling Stone #155, (28 February 1974); republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979), p. 49
Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle--just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.
phil vischer— p. 9-10 (Me, Myself, & Bob (2006))
We are supposedly a country at war, but we’re all going about watching American Idol and having not all that different a time than if we weren’t at war. I observe the weird juxtaposition of reading the newspaper and then tuning into American Idol and getting really upset when Constantine gets voted off and then wondering where my head was at. But in a way, that’s also the salvation of the country, our level of optimism.
— on making American Dreamz [1]Also phrased as: "I think it was just the weird feeling of, being like a lot of Americans and sort of reading the paper in the morning and worrying about terrorism and whether the administration was handling things in the right way, and then in the evening worrying even more about whether Constantine was going to get kicked off American Idol. It was really just kind of observing myself and, finding this weird disconnect, between the supposedly deadly serious situation of being at war with us going about our daily lives as if nothing is happening."
Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets
thom yorke— "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.
paul graham— "The Acceleration of Addictiveness", July 2010
Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.
john green— The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster (2012, p. 33)
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
john green— The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster (2012, p. 139)
“Judge” Andrew Napolitano is at it again, legitimizing some of the worst people in American politics on his Fox News online show. This time around, he’s pimping for Ron Paul and racialist paleocon Lew Rockwell... [Ron Paul is] a kook with weird unworkable ideas about the economy (return to the gold standard? you've gotta be kidding) and unsavory racist connections.
charles foster johnson— April 16, 2009 [46]
People who say this cracker is literally and physically the body of their god and that I'm doing this great act of heresy and sacrilege and horror -- even though I didn't actually do anything to it -- is disturbing. It's like discovering there are witch doctors lurking in your community and they've been doing weird practices.
pz myers— Commenting on a Eucharist in Paul Schmelzer (2008-07-15). "Unrepentant science-heathen PZ Myers still intends to prove 'this cracker is nothing'". Minnesota Independent.
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE out of TIME.
edgar allan poe— "Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
dan quayle— Interview with Hendrik Hertzburg (October 1988), referring to Grigori Rasputin
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl .
larry wall— Usenet article <7865@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> (1990)
Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
larry wall— Usenet article <199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org> (1997)
John I already answered this.. let us know what you're talking about, it's like loony. It's weird.. makes you look weird.
— Thomas W. Davis (Tommy Davis), (May 14, 2007) statement to journalist John Sweeney on program "Scientology and Me" (transcript), Panorama, BBC.
It's unique because it doesn't look like a comet with the typical tail; it looks like a cloud. It's not what you would normally see at all ... With the naked eye, it looks like a star or planet, but with binoculars it's really weird looking; it doesn't happen every day.
— George Masterson, physics and astronomy teacher on Comet 17P/Holmes - quoted in "Mysteriously bright comet provides sky-high teaching moment at NHS" in the Daily News of Newburyport (9 November 2007)
